Stephen Devereux is a development economist with 20 years experience working predominantly on food security, rural livelihoods, social protection and poverty reduction issues. His research experience has mainly been in Africa, especially Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi and Namibia.

He has provided policy advice to the Government of Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Namibia, Uganda and the UK. His books include ‘Fieldwork in Developing Countries’, ‘Theories of Famine’, and ‘Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa’. He has been a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex since 1996. His current projects include: ALINe; Swaziland’s Food and Cash Transfers project; Social Protection Approaches for Climate Change; Malawi Social Protection Framework;Making Cash Count; Lesotho’s Cash and Food Transfers project; Kenya Hunger Safety Net programme; Food Supply Crisis and Food Security in Malawi; FACT Malawi; Ethiopia Productive Safety Net Programme.

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